Networked Journalism in the Middle East

Networked Journalism in the Middle East

Here’s my presentation that I delivered at the Arab United States Association of Communication Educator’s conference in Kuwait today. And here’s a handy table of Examples of Networked Journalism that I developed. You can download the presentation here — feel free to adapt it for your students.

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Matt J. Duffy, PhD, is an academic media scholar. His works have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Middle East Media, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and the Newspaper Research Journal. An assistant professor of communication, Duffy teaches UAE and international media law at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. He is an active member of AUSACE, the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators. Follow him on Twitter.

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Ann Duffy
October 18, 2010 at 2:03 am

you still have some “insert here” in the ppt you posted. Good luck this afternoon!

Thanks Matt, really useful. Any chance this could be up on slideshare afterwards? I would like to build on it from the point of view of socialreporting … using similar methods from within a community or ecosystem to make sense, join up, help out.

About the Author

Dr. Matt J. Duffy serves as an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, USA. He enjoys teaching the art of good journalism, a noble profession and powerful tool for social change. Duffy worked as a journalist for several news outlets including the Boston Herald and the Marietta Daily Journal. He now teaches journalism and media law.
Duffy's research focuses on international approaches to media law. Wolters Kluwer will publish the second edition of his"Media Laws in the United Arab Emirates" in 2017. He has published more than a dozen academic articles and writes occasionally for niche publications. Duffy enjoyed a visit to Pakistan in May 2016 as part of the Fulbright Scholar program from the US State Department. Since 2012, Duffy has served on the board of the Arab-United States Association for Communication Educators, an organization that aims to improve journalism in the Middle East. He also owns Oxford Editing that he started in 2007.